Zixing Fan

Learn about research being undertaken by Zixing Fan, a PhD student in Linguistics

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Supervisors

A/Prof Anna Siyanova and Prof Gina Grimshaw

Biography

Zixing is a PhD candidate in psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research spans language acquisition, language processing, language sample analysis, eye-tracking, and EEG. She focuses on multi-word expressions and the cognitive mechanisms that support fluent comprehension. Her current project, The effects of adjacency and contextual predictability on collocation processing: An ERP and oscillation study, examines how phrase adjacency and sentence context shape neural responses to collocations, combining ERP components and time–frequency measures.